I have a female and no male, she has been laying eggs that are not fertile. I feel so sorry I can't find her a mate, so I got her a few quail eggs to hatch. Won't she be surprised?
It has been in the 90s and 100s here for weeks. So, to keep the chickens cool while in the coop at night, I found an old furnace blower and set it outside the screened window and it keeps them cool.
I also used a small tiller and made a depression about 3-4 inches deep in the pen and fill it...
Why do you want to kill the poor raccoon just wanting something to eat. It probably has several babies that will be with out a mother to feed them so they can eat the chickens too. My remedy is to buy a lot of chickens and just leave one out a night so the raccoon won't get in the chicken house...
I tried white styrofoam and the chickens kept pecking at it to eat it. I then tried the foil faced foam and they tore the foil face off and tried to eat it. So what else is there to insulate with?
For the past 8 years, a pair of wild Canadian geese come to our place. I have two ponds and the fartherst one I put out a wood box with straw and every year the hatch 6 to 7 babies. After the first year where the parents took off with the babies and after they were all killed, I started putting...
Raising both chickens and ducks, sometimes they get their eggs mixed up. One time a chicken laid an egg in a duck's nest and whereas chick eggs hatch sooner I found a baby chick with the duck. Not wanting to fool with the baby chick at that time, I planned to wait until the ducks hatched. When...
I need someone to take these 5 roosters off my hands before I commit murder
1 red bantam
1 black bantam this pretty good
1 big yellow rooster that is pretty good.
2 BIG red Buckeye rooster really need to go soon
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